What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project L70 of PE 0604710A. This is the budget justification's own description of work that has not happened yet — the one thing no other level of the budget carries.
Funding supports continued digital optimization of the sensor for enhanced threat detection and recognition of the Aided Target Detection and Recognition (AiTDR) algorithms for rapid target acquisition and improved kill chain timeline. Funding also supports continued efforts to promote competition for full rate production.
FY 2027 increase funds the digital optimization of the sensor for enhanced threat detection.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Funding supports digital optimization of the sensor for enhanced threat detection and recognition of the Aided Target Detection and Recognition (AiTDR) algorithms for rapid target acquisition and improved kill chain timeline. Funding also supports continued efforts to promote competition for full rate production.
FY 2025 Base Funding supports continued development and integration of sensor automation and artificial intelligence/machine learning to support Aided Target Detection and Recognition and promote competition for full rate production.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 7.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 14.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 16.6 |
This activity is 100% of project L70's FY2027 request and 4.0% of PE 0604710A's. In the request year the activities under a project sum to it exactly; in the current year they under-cover it in about 9% of cases, so an activity's delta can legitimately exceed its parent's and the two must not be compared row to row.
1 activity in project L70
Every R-2A line of this project, largest FY2027 request first. Linked where the activity has enough of its own narrative to carry a page; the rest are shown in full on the project page.